Новости за 25.01.2022

The Israeli pandemic headquarters and the country's vaccination commission have recommended a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to its entire population aged 18 to 60, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Thirty-eight percent of students will study online this week. That's almost 266,000 children and young people, according to the latest study on COVID-19 in schools, conducted on January 24 this year. The other two-thirds of the students are in school. Last week, their share was 82 percent, according to the press center of the Ministry of Education and Science.

“I am very pleased with the work of both governments. In a short time, with a large size, in a number of important areas, you also work on a time schedule, which sector group, when and what to do. Let us try to introduce the same approach to solving open political problems. Let us finally clarify what are the short-term tasks we need to solve before we start negotiations. I hope that we will not delay this process any longer, but let us make sure that we have clear time limits for resolving other issues. Читать дальше...

Russia's armed forces today launched a new series of exercises near Ukraine and annexed Crimea. The maneuvers involved 6,000 servicemen, as well as fighters and bombers, AFP reported, citing Russian news agencies.

Tedros Adhanom Gebreyes - one of the most recognizable figures in the global battle against covid, has no competition for the presidency of the organization, AFP reported.

A majority of 60.8% of Bulgarians are of the opinion that our country should support the membership of North Macedonia in the EU, but only on condition that our nearest neighbor quickly implements the agreement it has with Bulgaria.

“If we had explained to people that we are currently trying to spend 2% of GDP (for defense), but if we were not in NATO, now we would be spending between 7-8%, everyone would have understood us”.

The United Kingdom is unlikely to send a military contingent to Ukraine amid rising tensions no matter how the situation develops, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said on Tuesday that it had “uncovered a Russian criminal group” that planned to carry out a “series of armed attacks” on the country's territory.

At the behest of President Joe Biden, the Pentagon has put about 8,500 U.S.-based troops on high alert, which could be sent to Europe if Russia invades Ukraine, the Associated Press and Reuters reported, quoting Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

The European digital covid certificates for vaccination of 93 thousand Bulgarians expire on February 1 and will not be valid when traveling in the EU, the Ministry of Health announced. Gradually, this number will expand with the first vaccinated in early 2021.

At today's joint meeting of the governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia, three memoranda of understanding were signed for cooperation in agriculture, between small and medium enterprises, and for the development of the Sofia-Skopje railway, which is part of the large Corridor №8 project.

Two of the five large regions into which the country is divided are already in stage 3 in terms of morbidity and occupancy of intensive care beds. These are Western and Southeastern Bulgaria.

The governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia held a joint meeting in Bulgaria at the Boyana Residence. Prime Ministers Kiril Petkov and Dimitar Kovachevski also spoke in private. The meeting comes just a week after the Bulgarian prime minister visited Skopje.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been entered in the register of terrorists and extremists, Russian media reported, based on data from the Financial Monitoring Service.

Greece and Turkey are frozen by snowfall, as in the southern neighbor of Bulgaria today is a non-working day, and in the southeast neighbor, the snow has severely affected road connections by land and air.

We welcomed the coldest morning of January. Temperatures during the night and in the early hours of Tuesday were between minus 5 and minus 15 degrees Celsius in different parts of the country. It is especially cold in the valleys of Western Bulgaria, the Fore-Balkans and the western sub-Balkan valleys - in these places amateur meteorological stations measured to minus 17 - minus 18 degrees. From the automatic stations of NIMH in Troyan at 5 in the morning it was minus 17.1 degrees, and in Botevgrad... Читать дальше...

Nearly 10,000 Bulgarians drink chlorine dioxide, a bleach-like preparation, to protect themselves from COVID, according to a bTV investigation.

“Foreign investments have decreased by 50% over the past year, and this is a good litmus test,” Kalin Slavov, executive director of Transparency International, told BNR before the presentation of the International Corruption Perceptions Index for 2021.

The Minister of Tourism Hristo Prodanov held a working meeting with the Ambassador of the State of Israel, H.E. Yoram Elron. The two discussed bilateral relations between Israel and Bulgaria, as well as ways to improve tourist flows between the two countries.

US President Joe Biden held an 80-minute video conference with several European leaders on the Ukrainian crisis last night, Reuters and AFP reported.

891 277 are the total confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria. This is shown by the data of the Unified Information Portal.